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註釋"Surveillance and Self-Realization In Othello, Lago manipulates Othello into worrying that his wife Desdemona is unfaithful. Othello declares in response: I'll see before I doubt; when I doubt, prove; And on the proof, there is no more but this, -Away at once with love or jealousy!1 However, Lago manipulates what Othello sees. In a pivotal scene, he arranges for Othello to eavesdrop on a conversation between Lago and Cassio, one of Othello's lieutenants. The conversation concerns Cassio's mistress Bianca, but Lago knows that Othello will misinterpret it to be about Cassio's nonexistent affair with Desdemona. Lago's plan is that As he [Cassio] shall smile Othello shall go mad; And his unbookish [unreflective] jealousy must construe Poor Cassio's smiles, gestures, and light behavior Quite in the wrong.2 Othello does "go mad" and ultimately murders Desdemona. Businesses and governments embrace their own "I'll see" by employing surveillance technologies that enable a constant and pervasive investigative gaze"--